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western carolinian prilt.trhen ttikt.t bt philo white pi for their supplies of foreign goods t.iey bind upon each other for more than a thousand miles the red river the arkansas and the kansas furnish differ ent lines of water communication and the land route is free from obstruction to the march of wagons and carriages and abounding with the means of subsistence for men and horses this interior re k . 10n ' .Â° open to access from the valley of the mississippi is almost unapproachable from every other side it is separated from mexico proper by distance by deserts and by mountains it is cut off frcm the atlantic and pacific oceans by the same barriers its interior position has acquired for it the emphatic title of provincial interims and induced the king _ of spain to favor it with a govern ment of itself independent of the vice roys of mexico to aggravate the evil of such a position is the want of naviga hie rivers the rio del norte though magnified by the spaniards bv the impos ing titles of " bravo and grande is yet only brave in a war upon sand and only great in the distance which it runs of the two thousand miles which it dis plays in length no more than lour or five hundred ind these towards its head are fit for navigation ; all the rest is choked up with sand akin to this evil is anoth erâ€”the want of convenient sea-ports j the internal provinces may be said to be i without sea-ports iuaymas in the gulf of california is small in itself not readily appro bed and separated from the val ley of the rio del norte by some nun died leagues of distance and the lofty ridge of sierra mader and bernardo and galvezton on the coast of lekas are nothing but anchorages and separated by great distances from the rich and popu lous provinces vara cruz tampico alvarado and acaptilco are about as far off as our pittsburg is from the town of santa fe tbey are as far off in measur ed miles and about ten or twenty times further in the difference of trnnportation from the mexican ports tbe whole route to santa fc 7 ver land and ihe backs ul mules th onlj means of conveyance from pittsburg the entire distance with â– he exception of a mere fraction is a wa ter line of river navigation look at the m ips sec the ohio running a thousand niiies direct from pittiburg towards san ta fe ; tnen see the kansas the arkan sas and r':d river running directly from : r and meeting the ohio in the central channel ut'ihe mississippi thus not onlv st louis and the towns on the missouri river but those on the ohio and even those on the sea board of the atlantic states are nearer to santa fe than either vera cruz acapulco or any other mexi can port but the decision of the ques tion does not depend upon a view of the maps it is already solved merchandise which is now carried from missouri to the internal province's is the same which had been previously brought down the ohio from the atlantic ports and factor les the cotton goods thus carried out beir the stamps ot arkwright and wal tham are the same which after paying the cotton grower for the raw materia , and leaving a profu in the hands of the minufacturer the first second and third sellers and given employment to numer ous carriers are still sold at another pro fit the internal provinces and yet sold so low as to drive out of market every com petitor from the mexican ports this fact so important to the legislator is vouched by mr storrs wiio informs us that the arbitrary duty imposed bv pro vincial authority upon american impor tations was imposed at the instance of the traders from the mexican ports to en able them to contend with those who de rive their supplies from the seaboard of our north atlantic states allied by na ture the internal provinces are now alii ed in fact with the valley of the mis sissippi for ages they had been sepa rated by the o"er ol man the jeal ousy of despotism had raised between them a barrier of interdicts more impas sable than walls oi stone or brass but liberty has raised her head and the bar rier is overthrown our adventurous citizens enter and unless checked by the government they will make the inland trade to mexico as permanent as are the localities and the liberties of their coun tries but it is not the west alone which is benefitted by this trade the north and the south participate in her profits the bouth grows the cotton the north works t up and the west exports it thus dis playing one of the most beautiful opera tions of agriculture manufacture and commerce mutually dependent upon and mutually aiding each other â€¢ that the trade will be beneficial to the inhabitants of the internal provinces is a proposition too plain to be argued they are a people among whom all the arts are lost â€” the ample catalogue of whose wants may be inferred from the lamentable de tails of mr storrs no books ! no news | papers 1 iron a dollar a pound ! cultiva ting the earth with wooden tools 1 and 1 spinning upon a stick ! such is the pic ture of a people whose fathers wore the proud title of " conquerors ;" whose an cestors in the time of charles the fifth were the pride the terror and the mode of europe ; and such has been the power of civil and religious despotism in ac complishing the degradation of the hu man species i i o a people thus abased and so lately arrived at the possession of their liberties a supply of merchandise upon the cheapest terms is tiie least of the benefits to be derived fr_m a com mi-rce with the people of thc united slates the consolidation of their re publican institu ions the improvement of their moral and social condition the re storation of their lose alts the developt ment of their natio-.jl resources are among the grand remits which philan thropy anticipates from such a com merce nate officers of the squadron in relation to the receipt or transportation of specie bullion and jewels in the several vessels under his command tion for stock in the di.mal swamp ca nal company which was read twice and committed and ordered to be printed mr poinsett offered the following re solutions : t ;, e terms of the western carolinian will realtor be as follows : three dollars a year lble in advance xo paper discontinued except at the option rthe editor until all arrearages are paid vlvertisements will be inserted at fifty cents ctstmre for the first iiisertion and twenty-five . nts for each subsequent one all letters addressed to the editor must be at-tmij or they will not be attended to ! three messages were this day recei ved from the president of the united states ; one relative to the act of the le gislature of virginia incorporating the ohio and chesapeake canal company ; another relative to the u states mint ; and the third relative to the alterations lately effected in the treaty between the united states and the bashaw of tunis which treaty was published in the last week's carolinian the senate was engaged the remain der of the day in the discussion of the bill for the suppression of piracy feb 7 â€” the committee on finance to whom was referred the bill from the house of representatives " making ap propriations for the military service of the united states for the year 1825 repor ted the same with some amendments resolved that an immediate represen tation ought to be made to the captain general of cuba setting forth the losses and injuries inflicted upon the property and persons of the citizens of the united states by pirates issuing from that island and retiring thither with their plunder and calling upon him to cause on de mand immediate measures to be taken for the punishment of these marauders and for the prevention of future attroci ties by them resolved that if the captain general should refuse or delay to adopt such measures the president of the united states oug * t to concert with the maritime powers interested in the commerce of the west indies efficient means of extir pating the pirates that infest those seas mr poinsett said that he was induced to offer these resolutions in order to bring to the view of the house what he believed to be the only means of suppressing pira cy in the west india seas mr forsyth moved to lay the resolu tions on the table and to print them j which was agreed to irade with mexico h the scute of the united states january 25 ihe senate proceeded to the consider : ion of the bill reported by mr benton from the committee on indian affairs on i e 11th inst to authorize the president lo cause a road to be marked out from i e frontier of missouri to the confines of y e tv mexico and making appropriations herefor ihe bill having been read jfr benton rose and said that the peti ons presÂ°nted by ihe inhabitants of mis mri and he communication derived ommr stoir tiad proved the existence fan inland trade between the valley of ie mississippi and the internal provinces : mexico the had shewn also tie jd the dingers to which the trade was ibjcct from indian depredation on the ay and arbitrary exactions afte it arriv j the indians prone to robbery and mrder attacked ind pillaged the cara ibs the provincial authorities separa d by an immerse distance from the par it irovernment imposed arbitrary duties i the merchandise imported to t*e vethe trade from those dangerous im jsitions the citizens of missouri had idrcssed themselves to the congress of ie united states and claimed the inter jsition of its powerful protection they ive a ed said mr b among other ings for the right of an unmolested pus ge protected by treaty stipulations rough the territories of the intervening ibes and for the appointment of agents ith suitable powers to reside at santa e and ! in deciding upon we requesis the committee to whom e subject was referred and whose or in i have the honor to be have held it be their duty to inquire strictly into e value of the trade for which protec ui is sough he probability of its con mancc ami its effect upon the snciul i political os well as upon the commer il relations of the two countries fhey ve inquired accordingly an r finding e results to be favorable to the ject of e petitioners they have instructed mc report ihe bill which has been read at m table the bill " for the suppression of piracy in the west indies having been read the third time on the question shall the bill pass ?" it was determined in the affirmative without a division on motion the blank in the bill was filled with the sum of 500,000 house of representatives i feb 1 the speaker laid before the house a communication from the secre tary of war transmitting a statement of the appropriations for the service of the department for the year 1824 showing the amount appropriated under each spe cific head the amount expended under each and the balance remaining unex pended in the treasury on the 31st december last mr clay house of representatives feb 3 the speaker mr clay rose from hi place and requested the indulgence of thes house for a few moments whilst he ask ed its attention to a subject in which he felt himself deeply concerned a note had appear'd this morning in the nation al intelligencer under the name and with the authority as he presumed of a member of this house from pennsylvania mr kremer which adopted as his own a previous letter published in another printj containing serious and injurious imputations against him and which tho author avowed his readiness to substanti ate by proof these charges implicated his conduct in regard to the pending presidential election ; and the respecta bility of the station which the member holds who thus openly prefers them and that of the people whom he represents entitled them to grave attention i might be indeed worthy of considera tion whether the character and dig nity of the house itself did not require a full investigation of them and an impar tial decision on their truth for if they were true if he were capable and base enough lo betray the solemn trust which the constitution had confided to him ; if yielding to personal views and considera tions he could eompromit the highest in terests of his country the house would be scandalized by his continuing to occu py the chair with which he had been so long honored in presiding at its delibera tions and he merited instantaneous ex pulsion without however presuming to indicate what the house might con ceive it ought to do on account of its own purity and honor he hoped that he should be allowed respectfully to solicit in be half of himself an inquiry into the truth of the charges to which he referred standing in the relation to the house which both the member from pennsyl vania and himself did it appeared to him that here was the proper place to institute the enquiry in order that if guilty here the proper punishment might be applied and if innocent that here his character and conduct may be vindicated he anxiously hoped therefore tha - . thc house would be pleased to direct an investiga tion to be made unto the truth of the charges emanathg from the source which they did this was the only notice which he could take of them if the house should think proper to raise a committee he trusted that some other than the ordinary mode pursued by the practice and rules of the house would be adopted to appoint the committee the speaker having concluded his ob servations and called mr taylor to the chair in hit place mr forsyth of ga rose and said he hoped that the address of the speaker would be entered on the journal and that the document to which he had refer red should be laid on the table : and that ihe address and the document would be referred te a committee of nine mefnbers to be chosen by ballot mr kremer of pa rose and said if upon an investigation being instituted ic should appear that he had not sufficient reason to justify the statements he had made he trusted he should receive the marked reprobation which had been sug gested by the speaker let it fall where it might mr k said he was willing to meet the inquiry and abide the result mi k moved that the card of the honorable speaker referred to in " anoth er card should slso be referred to the committee and entered on the journal ef the hanse to be concluded in our hc.rt mte suits fomgrrss in senate the committee on military affairs re ported a bill to increase the pay of the sergeants of the army of the united states and for other purposes ; which was read twice and committed and ordered to be printed the house was engaged the balance of the day in discussing and arranging the details of the bill making appropriations for the support of government during the year 1825 feb 2 â€” an act making appropriations for the aupport of the government for the year 1825 was read a third time and passed tuesday feo !. â€” mr benton from the committee on indian affairs to whom was referred the message of the presi dent of the united states in relation to the concentration of the indians at some point beyond the river mississippi made a report accompanied by a bill on the subject on motion it was resolved that a committee be appoin ted to join such committee as may be ap pointed by the house of representatives to ascertain and report a mode of exam ining the votes for president and vice president of the united states and of notifying the persons elected of their election an act making appropriations for the military service of the united states for the year 1825 was read a third time and passed an act making appropriations for the support of the navy of the united states for the year 1825 was read a third time and passed the house went into committee of the whole on the rules to be observed when the house shall be called on to ballot for president ; and after a long discussion the house at a late hour adjourned feb 3 mr call of florida submit ted the following resolution : resolved that the committee on the judiciary be instructed to inquire wheth er either of the judges of the district courts of florida have received fees for their services not authorized by law ; and if any what other mal practices have been committed by the said judges or either of them and that the said commit tee be authorized to compel the attend ance of persons and the production of papers to promote this investigation which was agreed to thc speaker mr clay rose from his place and requested the indulgence of the house for a few moments whilst he asked its attention to a subject in which he felt himself deeply concerned this subject was the affair between mr clay and mr kremer a notice of which will be found in another part of our paper.j feb 4 â€” the committeee on the judi ciary reported a bill from the senate without amendment entitled an act to provide for the security of public money in the hands of clerks of courts and at torneys and marshals and their deputies which was read and referred the senate resumed the consideration of the bill " for the suppression of piracy in the west indies the question pen ding was the motio'i bv mr tazewell to strike ou the third section of the bill the question being now put " shall lis bill p:is s ?*â€¢ i feel r.yself said mr b fled upon by the novelty of its proposi tus by my position as chairm in of the inmiitee which reported it and above li by the relation in which i stand with spect to those who are chiefly interested its passage to state the reasons which ducc me to give an affirmative answer that question first then sir ssid mr b it does em to me that the trade between mis mri and mexico is sufliciently valuable merit the favor of the national protec Â»>â€¢ it opens a new and extensive mar it for the cotton goods grown and manu crnred in our own country ; a market * circumscribed by the walls of a town ' the shores of an island but spreading ; er an area of a million of square miles ne seven internal province , qual in tent to seven of the principal â€¢ . lotus europe put together they ars la-*ge 1 "*"â– '.' i to give i-.s and outlet to a river a long debate arose on this motion ; and when he question was taken the senate decided to strike out the section bv a vote of 37 to io the senate then adjourned feb 2 â€” the bill to authorize the sale of unserviceable ordnance aims and mil itary store was read the second time ; and mr jackson communicated a letter from the secre'ary of war containing irforma'Â»<i . nn r:i uljjeci matter of said hill ; v ;. â€¢ â€¢* i , read ; and m motion by mr mills it was ordered that the bill and letter be referred to the committee on military affairs to consider and report thereon the several appropriation bills which this dav passed the house of rrpresenta tives were receive and read ! he bill to remit the duty on books maps and charts imported for the use of the library of congress was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading the remainder of the day was consu med in discussing in detail and amend ing the bill for the suppression of piracy feb 3 the senate resumed the con sideration of the bill to suppress piracy in the west indies â€” the amendment proposed by mr smith granting aid to merchantmen to arm being still pending this amendment was rejected after considerable debate the discussion of the bill continued till the usual hour of adjournment ; when no final question be ing taken the senate adjourned feb 4 mr lloyd of maryland sub mitted the following resolution : resolved that the secretary of the navy report to the senate as soon as practicable a statement showing the amount of specie bullion and jewels transported by the public armed ships of the u states authorized to be employed by an act of the 20th august 1822 enti tled " an act authorizing an additional naval force for the suppression of piracy giving in detail the ports from whence the vessels sailed and the time of sailing the ports where the articles were deliv ered and when delivered and the amount of freight accruing and to whom paid ; and that there be also furnished to the senate copies of the instructions given by the commander of tbe forces authori zed by the aforesaid act ta the subordi soingmore territory than the danube e hio del norte which traverses six rc parallels of latitude and finals in mice evinces only in those called eastern ample spjrc in which to unfold its wmons length the resources of this tensive region are rich and various e mountainous districts abound with te d animals the plains with mules r es and cattle ; and the central ,> â– ts m gold and silver mines the popu n exclusive of that description of in "Â» which the spanish call " indios bra Â»> ' amounts to 600,000 souls and in ses with the rapidity only known to w countries where manners arc simple 2 means of subsistence abundant and 1 1 a free gift to all that will take it 1e tr ade of a peopjle inhabiting a coun j s .Â° vast ' possessing resources so rich a increasing in numbers as rapidly as selves must doubtless be valuable it s already yielded for the present year i90,ooa in gold and silver coin and bul m > and precious furs ; and this sum al jgh considerable in itself is only a fcmning and an earnest of what may be [ pÂ«ted when the trade is protected and irn ed to the extent of which it is capa the speaker's appeal to the house on motion the house then resumed the consideration of the motion of mr forsyth to refer the communication of the speaker to a select committee on which there arose an animated de bate which occupied the house till half past four o'clock the motion of mr forsyth to commit the communication of the speaker to a to the people of the west i know thi trade to be an object of the greatest val ue their own interior position cut them off from foreign commerce th mexicans are their neighbors and th only foreign power with whom they cai trade it is one of the few sources fron which they can derive the precious me tals the coin already brought in con stitutes the circulating medium of th country in the western parts of missouri it is paid into the offices for public lands and then comes into the coffers of tin government whose protection it no solicits committee was finally adopted by yeas and nays â€” yeas 125 nays 69 the committee was ordered to consist of seven and to be appointed by ballot feb 7 the committee on indian af fairs reported a bill for the preservation and civilization of the indian tribes with in the united states which was read twice and committed and oidered to be printed the committee on roads and canals reported a bill to authorize a subscrip the trade promises to be permanent oe internal provinces are naturally de cent upon tbe valley of the mississip

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western carolinian prilt.trhen ttikt.t bt philo white pi for their supplies of foreign goods t.iey bind upon each other for more than a thousand miles the red river the arkansas and the kansas furnish differ ent lines of water communication and the land route is free from obstruction to the march of wagons and carriages and abounding with the means of subsistence for men and horses this interior re k . 10n ' .Â° open to access from the valley of the mississippi is almost unapproachable from every other side it is separated from mexico proper by distance by deserts and by mountains it is cut off frcm the atlantic and pacific oceans by the same barriers its interior position has acquired for it the emphatic title of provincial interims and induced the king _ of spain to favor it with a govern ment of itself independent of the vice roys of mexico to aggravate the evil of such a position is the want of naviga hie rivers the rio del norte though magnified by the spaniards bv the impos ing titles of " bravo and grande is yet only brave in a war upon sand and only great in the distance which it runs of the two thousand miles which it dis plays in length no more than lour or five hundred ind these towards its head are fit for navigation ; all the rest is choked up with sand akin to this evil is anoth erâ€”the want of convenient sea-ports j the internal provinces may be said to be i without sea-ports iuaymas in the gulf of california is small in itself not readily appro bed and separated from the val ley of the rio del norte by some nun died leagues of distance and the lofty ridge of sierra mader and bernardo and galvezton on the coast of lekas are nothing but anchorages and separated by great distances from the rich and popu lous provinces vara cruz tampico alvarado and acaptilco are about as far off as our pittsburg is from the town of santa fe tbey are as far off in measur ed miles and about ten or twenty times further in the difference of trnnportation from the mexican ports tbe whole route to santa fc 7 ver land and ihe backs ul mules th onlj means of conveyance from pittsburg the entire distance with â– he exception of a mere fraction is a wa ter line of river navigation look at the m ips sec the ohio running a thousand niiies direct from pittiburg towards san ta fe ; tnen see the kansas the arkan sas and r':d river running directly from : r and meeting the ohio in the central channel ut'ihe mississippi thus not onlv st louis and the towns on the missouri river but those on the ohio and even those on the sea board of the atlantic states are nearer to santa fe than either vera cruz acapulco or any other mexi can port but the decision of the ques tion does not depend upon a view of the maps it is already solved merchandise which is now carried from missouri to the internal province's is the same which had been previously brought down the ohio from the atlantic ports and factor les the cotton goods thus carried out beir the stamps ot arkwright and wal tham are the same which after paying the cotton grower for the raw materia , and leaving a profu in the hands of the minufacturer the first second and third sellers and given employment to numer ous carriers are still sold at another pro fit the internal provinces and yet sold so low as to drive out of market every com petitor from the mexican ports this fact so important to the legislator is vouched by mr storrs wiio informs us that the arbitrary duty imposed bv pro vincial authority upon american impor tations was imposed at the instance of the traders from the mexican ports to en able them to contend with those who de rive their supplies from the seaboard of our north atlantic states allied by na ture the internal provinces are now alii ed in fact with the valley of the mis sissippi for ages they had been sepa rated by the o"er ol man the jeal ousy of despotism had raised between them a barrier of interdicts more impas sable than walls oi stone or brass but liberty has raised her head and the bar rier is overthrown our adventurous citizens enter and unless checked by the government they will make the inland trade to mexico as permanent as are the localities and the liberties of their coun tries but it is not the west alone which is benefitted by this trade the north and the south participate in her profits the bouth grows the cotton the north works t up and the west exports it thus dis playing one of the most beautiful opera tions of agriculture manufacture and commerce mutually dependent upon and mutually aiding each other â€¢ that the trade will be beneficial to the inhabitants of the internal provinces is a proposition too plain to be argued they are a people among whom all the arts are lost â€” the ample catalogue of whose wants may be inferred from the lamentable de tails of mr storrs no books ! no news | papers 1 iron a dollar a pound ! cultiva ting the earth with wooden tools 1 and 1 spinning upon a stick ! such is the pic ture of a people whose fathers wore the proud title of " conquerors ;" whose an cestors in the time of charles the fifth were the pride the terror and the mode of europe ; and such has been the power of civil and religious despotism in ac complishing the degradation of the hu man species i i o a people thus abased and so lately arrived at the possession of their liberties a supply of merchandise upon the cheapest terms is tiie least of the benefits to be derived fr_m a com mi-rce with the people of thc united slates the consolidation of their re publican institu ions the improvement of their moral and social condition the re storation of their lose alts the developt ment of their natio-.jl resources are among the grand remits which philan thropy anticipates from such a com merce nate officers of the squadron in relation to the receipt or transportation of specie bullion and jewels in the several vessels under his command tion for stock in the di.mal swamp ca nal company which was read twice and committed and ordered to be printed mr poinsett offered the following re solutions : t ;, e terms of the western carolinian will realtor be as follows : three dollars a year lble in advance xo paper discontinued except at the option rthe editor until all arrearages are paid vlvertisements will be inserted at fifty cents ctstmre for the first iiisertion and twenty-five . nts for each subsequent one all letters addressed to the editor must be at-tmij or they will not be attended to ! three messages were this day recei ved from the president of the united states ; one relative to the act of the le gislature of virginia incorporating the ohio and chesapeake canal company ; another relative to the u states mint ; and the third relative to the alterations lately effected in the treaty between the united states and the bashaw of tunis which treaty was published in the last week's carolinian the senate was engaged the remain der of the day in the discussion of the bill for the suppression of piracy feb 7 â€” the committee on finance to whom was referred the bill from the house of representatives " making ap propriations for the military service of the united states for the year 1825 repor ted the same with some amendments resolved that an immediate represen tation ought to be made to the captain general of cuba setting forth the losses and injuries inflicted upon the property and persons of the citizens of the united states by pirates issuing from that island and retiring thither with their plunder and calling upon him to cause on de mand immediate measures to be taken for the punishment of these marauders and for the prevention of future attroci ties by them resolved that if the captain general should refuse or delay to adopt such measures the president of the united states oug * t to concert with the maritime powers interested in the commerce of the west indies efficient means of extir pating the pirates that infest those seas mr poinsett said that he was induced to offer these resolutions in order to bring to the view of the house what he believed to be the only means of suppressing pira cy in the west india seas mr forsyth moved to lay the resolu tions on the table and to print them j which was agreed to irade with mexico h the scute of the united states january 25 ihe senate proceeded to the consider : ion of the bill reported by mr benton from the committee on indian affairs on i e 11th inst to authorize the president lo cause a road to be marked out from i e frontier of missouri to the confines of y e tv mexico and making appropriations herefor ihe bill having been read jfr benton rose and said that the peti ons presÂ°nted by ihe inhabitants of mis mri and he communication derived ommr stoir tiad proved the existence fan inland trade between the valley of ie mississippi and the internal provinces : mexico the had shewn also tie jd the dingers to which the trade was ibjcct from indian depredation on the ay and arbitrary exactions afte it arriv j the indians prone to robbery and mrder attacked ind pillaged the cara ibs the provincial authorities separa d by an immerse distance from the par it irovernment imposed arbitrary duties i the merchandise imported to t*e vethe trade from those dangerous im jsitions the citizens of missouri had idrcssed themselves to the congress of ie united states and claimed the inter jsition of its powerful protection they ive a ed said mr b among other ings for the right of an unmolested pus ge protected by treaty stipulations rough the territories of the intervening ibes and for the appointment of agents ith suitable powers to reside at santa e and ! in deciding upon we requesis the committee to whom e subject was referred and whose or in i have the honor to be have held it be their duty to inquire strictly into e value of the trade for which protec ui is sough he probability of its con mancc ami its effect upon the snciul i political os well as upon the commer il relations of the two countries fhey ve inquired accordingly an r finding e results to be favorable to the ject of e petitioners they have instructed mc report ihe bill which has been read at m table the bill " for the suppression of piracy in the west indies having been read the third time on the question shall the bill pass ?" it was determined in the affirmative without a division on motion the blank in the bill was filled with the sum of 500,000 house of representatives i feb 1 the speaker laid before the house a communication from the secre tary of war transmitting a statement of the appropriations for the service of the department for the year 1824 showing the amount appropriated under each spe cific head the amount expended under each and the balance remaining unex pended in the treasury on the 31st december last mr clay house of representatives feb 3 the speaker mr clay rose from hi place and requested the indulgence of thes house for a few moments whilst he ask ed its attention to a subject in which he felt himself deeply concerned a note had appear'd this morning in the nation al intelligencer under the name and with the authority as he presumed of a member of this house from pennsylvania mr kremer which adopted as his own a previous letter published in another printj containing serious and injurious imputations against him and which tho author avowed his readiness to substanti ate by proof these charges implicated his conduct in regard to the pending presidential election ; and the respecta bility of the station which the member holds who thus openly prefers them and that of the people whom he represents entitled them to grave attention i might be indeed worthy of considera tion whether the character and dig nity of the house itself did not require a full investigation of them and an impar tial decision on their truth for if they were true if he were capable and base enough lo betray the solemn trust which the constitution had confided to him ; if yielding to personal views and considera tions he could eompromit the highest in terests of his country the house would be scandalized by his continuing to occu py the chair with which he had been so long honored in presiding at its delibera tions and he merited instantaneous ex pulsion without however presuming to indicate what the house might con ceive it ought to do on account of its own purity and honor he hoped that he should be allowed respectfully to solicit in be half of himself an inquiry into the truth of the charges to which he referred standing in the relation to the house which both the member from pennsyl vania and himself did it appeared to him that here was the proper place to institute the enquiry in order that if guilty here the proper punishment might be applied and if innocent that here his character and conduct may be vindicated he anxiously hoped therefore tha - . thc house would be pleased to direct an investiga tion to be made unto the truth of the charges emanathg from the source which they did this was the only notice which he could take of them if the house should think proper to raise a committee he trusted that some other than the ordinary mode pursued by the practice and rules of the house would be adopted to appoint the committee the speaker having concluded his ob servations and called mr taylor to the chair in hit place mr forsyth of ga rose and said he hoped that the address of the speaker would be entered on the journal and that the document to which he had refer red should be laid on the table : and that ihe address and the document would be referred te a committee of nine mefnbers to be chosen by ballot mr kremer of pa rose and said if upon an investigation being instituted ic should appear that he had not sufficient reason to justify the statements he had made he trusted he should receive the marked reprobation which had been sug gested by the speaker let it fall where it might mr k said he was willing to meet the inquiry and abide the result mi k moved that the card of the honorable speaker referred to in " anoth er card should slso be referred to the committee and entered on the journal ef the hanse to be concluded in our hc.rt mte suits fomgrrss in senate the committee on military affairs re ported a bill to increase the pay of the sergeants of the army of the united states and for other purposes ; which was read twice and committed and ordered to be printed the house was engaged the balance of the day in discussing and arranging the details of the bill making appropriations for the support of government during the year 1825 feb 2 â€” an act making appropriations for the aupport of the government for the year 1825 was read a third time and passed tuesday feo !. â€” mr benton from the committee on indian affairs to whom was referred the message of the presi dent of the united states in relation to the concentration of the indians at some point beyond the river mississippi made a report accompanied by a bill on the subject on motion it was resolved that a committee be appoin ted to join such committee as may be ap pointed by the house of representatives to ascertain and report a mode of exam ining the votes for president and vice president of the united states and of notifying the persons elected of their election an act making appropriations for the military service of the united states for the year 1825 was read a third time and passed an act making appropriations for the support of the navy of the united states for the year 1825 was read a third time and passed the house went into committee of the whole on the rules to be observed when the house shall be called on to ballot for president ; and after a long discussion the house at a late hour adjourned feb 3 mr call of florida submit ted the following resolution : resolved that the committee on the judiciary be instructed to inquire wheth er either of the judges of the district courts of florida have received fees for their services not authorized by law ; and if any what other mal practices have been committed by the said judges or either of them and that the said commit tee be authorized to compel the attend ance of persons and the production of papers to promote this investigation which was agreed to thc speaker mr clay rose from his place and requested the indulgence of the house for a few moments whilst he asked its attention to a subject in which he felt himself deeply concerned this subject was the affair between mr clay and mr kremer a notice of which will be found in another part of our paper.j feb 4 â€” the committeee on the judi ciary reported a bill from the senate without amendment entitled an act to provide for the security of public money in the hands of clerks of courts and at torneys and marshals and their deputies which was read and referred the senate resumed the consideration of the bill " for the suppression of piracy in the west indies the question pen ding was the motio'i bv mr tazewell to strike ou the third section of the bill the question being now put " shall lis bill p:is s ?*â€¢ i feel r.yself said mr b fled upon by the novelty of its proposi tus by my position as chairm in of the inmiitee which reported it and above li by the relation in which i stand with spect to those who are chiefly interested its passage to state the reasons which ducc me to give an affirmative answer that question first then sir ssid mr b it does em to me that the trade between mis mri and mexico is sufliciently valuable merit the favor of the national protec Â»>â€¢ it opens a new and extensive mar it for the cotton goods grown and manu crnred in our own country ; a market * circumscribed by the walls of a town ' the shores of an island but spreading ; er an area of a million of square miles ne seven internal province , qual in tent to seven of the principal â€¢ . lotus europe put together they ars la-*ge 1 "*"â– '.' i to give i-.s and outlet to a river a long debate arose on this motion ; and when he question was taken the senate decided to strike out the section bv a vote of 37 to io the senate then adjourned feb 2 â€” the bill to authorize the sale of unserviceable ordnance aims and mil itary store was read the second time ; and mr jackson communicated a letter from the secre'ary of war containing irforma'Â» â– ts m gold and silver mines the popu n exclusive of that description of in "Â» which the spanish call " indios bra Â»> ' amounts to 600,000 souls and in ses with the rapidity only known to w countries where manners arc simple 2 means of subsistence abundant and 1 1 a free gift to all that will take it 1e tr ade of a peopjle inhabiting a coun j s .Â° vast ' possessing resources so rich a increasing in numbers as rapidly as selves must doubtless be valuable it s already yielded for the present year i90,ooa in gold and silver coin and bul m > and precious furs ; and this sum al jgh considerable in itself is only a fcmning and an earnest of what may be [ pÂ«ted when the trade is protected and irn ed to the extent of which it is capa the speaker's appeal to the house on motion the house then resumed the consideration of the motion of mr forsyth to refer the communication of the speaker to a select committee on which there arose an animated de bate which occupied the house till half past four o'clock the motion of mr forsyth to commit the communication of the speaker to a to the people of the west i know thi trade to be an object of the greatest val ue their own interior position cut them off from foreign commerce th mexicans are their neighbors and th only foreign power with whom they cai trade it is one of the few sources fron which they can derive the precious me tals the coin already brought in con stitutes the circulating medium of th country in the western parts of missouri it is paid into the offices for public lands and then comes into the coffers of tin government whose protection it no solicits committee was finally adopted by yeas and nays â€” yeas 125 nays 69 the committee was ordered to consist of seven and to be appointed by ballot feb 7 the committee on indian af fairs reported a bill for the preservation and civilization of the indian tribes with in the united states which was read twice and committed and oidered to be printed the committee on roads and canals reported a bill to authorize a subscrip the trade promises to be permanent oe internal provinces are naturally de cent upon tbe valley of the mississip